Some
30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels,
forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into
servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday.
Almost half are in India, where slavery ranges from bonded
labour in quarries and kilns to commercial sex exploitation, although
the scourge exists in all 162 countries surveyed by Walk Free
Foundation, an Australian-based rights group.